TRYON. 'Sir Our mutual Friend Captain Holland, who arrived here this Day from New York, informs me that many People are soliciting to obtain Patents for a Tract of Land on the West Bank of Connecticut River, formerly granted under the seal of this Province by the Name of Rockingham, and since by His Majesty's Order in Council annexed to the Province of New- York ;--In this Township of Rockingham Mt Samuel Wentworth late of Boston was interested about five thousand acres, on which he had made some Improvement ; This was intended for a son of M* Wentworth, a youth now advanced to a sufficient Age to seftle thereon ; And as it is his whole Dependance, He is entirely solicitous to have it at all adventures, secured to him; Permit me therefore to intreat your Excellency's favorable Preference in making a new Grant to this youth Mt Benning Wentworth of the said 5000 Acres in Rockingham, which Captain Holland informs me are marked off in an intire & separate Lot in said Township. In hopes that my Request in Behalf of this deserving young Gentleman may succeed I have taken the Liberty to adjoin the Names w¢h Captain Holland tells me are necessary in making a Conveyance of sucha Tract of Land, according to the Practice in New York; and shall give immediate Directions to some Friends there to give the necessary attendance for compleating this Business, if your Excellency is so good to favour me with that Permission. I am with the greatest Respect & Esteem Your Excellency's very faithful and most obedient Servant J. WENTWORTH. Portsmouth New Hampshire 234 March 1772. His Excellency Governor Tryon &¢ Names to be inserted in the Patent of 5000 Acres of Land in Rockingham if it should appear expedient to His Excellency Governor Tryon to grant said Tract for Mt Wentworth vizt Benning Wentworth of Hinsdale in New Hampshire John Parker Esq M' Matthew Parker Ammi Ruhamah Cutter Esq' M' John Peirce